Evie
Experienced Member
Well this here is Rusty. He wasn't a planned member of our family, but we couldn't say no to him when his old family no longer wanted him.
He was born on the 16th Sep, 2014, making him almost 5 months old.
Rusty is a Kelpie - purebred apparently. He's already almost as tall as Evie and only 2kgs lighter... He's going to be a big boy!
I've never had a male dog before, so it's all new to me. He's learning pretty quickly especially since he basically knew nothing before we got him
We've only had him a week and he's already learnt
- toilet training (was an outside dog before and is now an inside dog with no accidents!)
- not stealing people food
- sit
- down
- leave it
- paw
- stay (is actually really quite good at this one)
I spend most of my time trying to convince him that having a recall is a good thing, but he's not at all convinced. A bit of a shock to my system after having Evie for 3 years who's always had an amazing recall.
Rusty would also like to add that the car sucks, and he doesnt like it one bit as at his previous home he got really badly car sick on several occasions when they took him places. He hasn't been sick with us yet, and we take him somewhere nearly every day.. but he drools a LOT. But even this is becoming less and less
So we're hoping with time and some positive reinforcement, that he'll come to love cars too!
Here's a pic or two (hundred)
Looks so innocent when he's sleeping..
Just chilling on his second day here with us
Evie showing off in front of him....
Stealing Evie's frisbee at the dog park..
A few just playing at the dog park..
Such attentive students!
So chompy!
He is, believe it or not, actually fast asleep in this photo...
Always sleeping - I forgot how much puppies sleep
I have their frisbee.... the faces say it all
He was born on the 16th Sep, 2014, making him almost 5 months old.
Rusty is a Kelpie - purebred apparently. He's already almost as tall as Evie and only 2kgs lighter... He's going to be a big boy!
I've never had a male dog before, so it's all new to me. He's learning pretty quickly especially since he basically knew nothing before we got him
We've only had him a week and he's already learnt
- toilet training (was an outside dog before and is now an inside dog with no accidents!)
- not stealing people food
- sit
- down
- leave it
- paw
- stay (is actually really quite good at this one)
I spend most of my time trying to convince him that having a recall is a good thing, but he's not at all convinced. A bit of a shock to my system after having Evie for 3 years who's always had an amazing recall.
Rusty would also like to add that the car sucks, and he doesnt like it one bit as at his previous home he got really badly car sick on several occasions when they took him places. He hasn't been sick with us yet, and we take him somewhere nearly every day.. but he drools a LOT. But even this is becoming less and less
So we're hoping with time and some positive reinforcement, that he'll come to love cars too!Here's a pic or two (hundred)
Looks so innocent when he's sleeping..
Just chilling on his second day here with us
Evie showing off in front of him....
Stealing Evie's frisbee at the dog park..
A few just playing at the dog park..
Such attentive students!
So chompy!
He is, believe it or not, actually fast asleep in this photo...
Always sleeping - I forgot how much puppies sleep
I have their frisbee.... the faces say it all
